What happens
Archie, the manager of Duffy's Tavern, prepares the bar for Father's Day and gets caught up in romantic plans of his own. He announces plans to marry Chiquita, a singer he has only heard on a jukebox and recently met, and she agrees to meet his supposedly wealthy father. Meanwhile, Eddie and the other regulars trade jokes about gifts for their fathers and about the tavern's problems. This episode from the Duffy's Tavern series, first broadcast June 15, 1950 on CBS, NBC Blue and NBC, stars Ed Gardner, Shirley Booth, Charlie Cantor and Florence Halop.
Duffy's Tavern, a New York bar, in the days before Father's Day.
Characters: Archie, Eddie, Duffy, Chiquita, Mr. Duffy
Listen for: Archie's proposal to Chiquita and his plan to introduce her to his father.
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.